Anglo-American Literature and MannersC. Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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Page 32
... received from the court . First , pardon for having gone to America , notwithstanding an order given him to the contrary ; and next , promotion to the rank of maréchal de camp over the heads of several who were , many of them , men of ...
... received from the court . First , pardon for having gone to America , notwithstanding an order given him to the contrary ; and next , promotion to the rank of maréchal de camp over the heads of several who were , many of them , men of ...
Page 34
... received by the emperor ; that he permitted her to write to him ; and that he has never received her letters . Humane and just as we are assured he is , would he have suf- fered the wife and children to be treated in the same manner ...
... received by the emperor ; that he permitted her to write to him ; and that he has never received her letters . Humane and just as we are assured he is , would he have suf- fered the wife and children to be treated in the same manner ...
Page 47
... received with a profounder surprise , that a good novelist or poet , brought up in the United States , that mercantile country , that nation insensible to art , give a rival to Walter Scott ! There were writers of Scottish history ...
... received with a profounder surprise , that a good novelist or poet , brought up in the United States , that mercantile country , that nation insensible to art , give a rival to Walter Scott ! There were writers of Scottish history ...
Page 54
... leaves the common hive ! Hence we have an universal complaisance , simple and easy , in received ideas . Now if everybody is to be like everybody else , common ideas will have the precedence , for 54 ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF.
... leaves the common hive ! Hence we have an universal complaisance , simple and easy , in received ideas . Now if everybody is to be like everybody else , common ideas will have the precedence , for 54 ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF.
Page 59
... received from God . He was ornitholo- gist from his cradle . He needed the winged race to paint , ob- serve , describe and love , sweet woodland concerts to hearken to , brilliant plumage to reproduce , wandering pinions whose curves ...
... received from God . He was ornitholo- gist from his cradle . He needed the winged race to paint , ob- serve , describe and love , sweet woodland concerts to hearken to , brilliant plumage to reproduce , wandering pinions whose curves ...
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